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Persian, Dari and Tajik

William O Beeman

Department of Anthropology

Brown University

Tables and Examples

Persian Tajik Dari

Orthography Arabic Cyrillic Arabic

Literature Extensive Moderate Scant

Relative Prestige High Moderate Low

2.1. Relations between Persian, Tajik and Dari

3.1 šə mo zæn dorid mi ? “Do you have a wife”


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English Tajik Persian

We are eating (now) Mo xorda istadæ-im (lit.) Ma darim mixorim

Mo istadæ-im xur (colloq.)

We were eating Mo xorda istadæ budim (lit.) Ma daštim mixordim

We had been eating Mo xorda istadæ budæ-im Ma daštim mixordim

3.2 “We are eating” in Tajik and Persian

English Tajik Persian

We would eat Mo mikhordagistim (lit.) Ma mixorim

Mo mikhordagim (colloq.)

We would be eating Mo xorda istadægistim (lit.) Ma mixordim

Mo xorda istadægim (colloq.)

We would have eaten Mo xordagistim (lit.) Ma daštim mixordim

Mo xordagim (colloq.)

We would have been

eating

Mo khorda istadægi budæ-im Ma daštim mixorde

budim

3.3 “We would eat,” etc. in Tajik and Persian constructions

3.4 Vai ketobo xondægi, ræft. “Having read, he left”


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3.5 Vai ketobo xondægi, miravæd. “Reading the book, he goes.”

3.6 Shoma ketobo xondægi? “Did you read the book?”


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Figure 1 Persian Speaking Areas in Asia (Persian, Dari, Tajik)

Tajikistan

Afghanistan

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